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EALED TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, and marked on the envelope ‘*Tender for Indian Supplies,” will be re- ceived up to noon of Tuesday, the first day of April next, for the following articles, or any of them, to be delivered to the Indian Super- intendent on Lennox Island, in such quanti- ties and at such times as may be required by him :—Flour, Tea, Sugar, Cotton, Print, Moccassins. Lumber, Shingles, Nails.

Samples of groceries and dry goods must accompany the Tenders.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Any newspaper inserting this advertisement without authority from this Department, through the Queen’s Printer, will forfeit pay ment for the same.

L. VANKOUGHNET, Deputy of the Superintendent Genera) of Indian Affairs Department of Indian Affairs, } Ottawa, February 9th, 1884. | 2 i tl Ist ap

MORTGAGE SALE,

TO be sold by Public Auction, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, in Prince Edward Island, on Wednesday, the fourteenth day of May next, A. D. 1884, atthe hour of twelve o'clock, noon,

LL that tract, piece and parcel of land,

hereditaments and premises, situate, lying and being in the City of Charlottetown, in the said Island, being part and parcel of Town Lot Number (92) ninety-two, in the fourth hundred of Town Lots in Charlotte. town, aforesaid, having a front of forty-six feet on Cumberland Street, and being eighty- four teet (84 feet) in depth back from said street, and bounded on the soutbeast by Joreph Mahar’s land, formerly James Han- cock’s, and on the northwest by the lands now in possession of Widow Brothers, and extending back from said street by parallel lines at right angles with said street,

The above sale is made pursuant to a Power of Sale, contained in an Indenture of Mortgage, bearing date the twenty-first day of November, A. D. 1877, made between Michael Welsh and Elizabeth, his wife, of the one part, and Barbara O'Hallora», of the other part, which Mortgage has been duly assigned to the undersigned,

For further particulars apply to Mr. Edward J. Hodgson, Solicitor, Charlottetown,

Datad this fourteenth day of March, A D. 1884,

RICHARD HEARTZ, Assignee of Mortgage, March 14—3aw tl sale

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Another Unhireatinn Lotter from Rev. W. BR Frame.

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As the usual space allotted to the Bermn- das on an ordin lary map is only about the | size of a pin’s head, and as the name does not even occur in certain of our geographies, | some description of them may not be out of place. The small group lies in the Altantic | Ocean in north latitude 32 deg. 24 sec.

—being about the same latitude as the Island of Madeira and Charlston, 8. C. |

They are in west longitude 63 deg. 28 sce.

| The Bermudas are about 860 miles south of Halifax, and 770 south-east of New York, The nearest point of land to them is Cape Hatteras, N. C., 625 miles distant, the next nearest being one of the Bahamas, thirty miles still further away,

| It may not be generally known that with

the single exception of St. Helena, Bermuda is the most remote from land of any Island

‘in the world.

The Bermuda group is said to contain 365 islands—one for every day in the year,

| but for the accuracy of this statement | do

not vouch, as 1 have never counted them, and not likely ever shall.

Many of these so called islands are how- ever only the merest rocks.

The entire group contains 12,378 acres, and of this the main island or Bermuda proper, has an area of 9,725 acres or more than two-thirds of the whole. St. George's and Somerset—both cenuected by bridges to the main island—contain a little over 700 acres each, while St. David’s, the next in size, has 527; thus leaving scarce 700 acres to be divided among all the other islands.

The group extends from northeast in a curved line to southwest, the length, fol- lowing the windings, being twenty-five miles, and the breadth only from one to three miler. At first sight, the little group on paper might be easily mistaken for a minature map of P. E. Island. The sur- face of the Bermudas is generally quite broken with several ranges of hills, some attaining the height of 260 feet.

The hill-sides and other uncultivated land is covered with small cedars. The cedar and palmetto—from the latter of which many hats and bonnets were formerly made—were the only trees found in Ber- muda when it was first discovered.

Besides the cedar, the wild sage bush, about three feet high, and also a coarse grass, known as ‘“‘crab grass,” abound on all the untilled land. The allander, which here grows to the height of twenty feet and over, is very plentiful. It is generally arranged in rows to shelter the crops, and also to form the boundary lines of the plantations.

It continues to bloom more or less throughout the year, but in spring becomes a complete mass of flowers. Great atten- tion is paid by the ladies to the cultivation of flowers, the Bermuda roses, even in mid-winter, far exceed, both in beauty and variety, any that I have seen elsewhere.

Some of the trees which have been im- ported from the tropics are very striking and beautiful. Special mention may be made of the fine ‘‘cabbage palms’’ brought |n from Granada over half a century ago.

They stand in a row beside the main street, at the entrance to Hamilton, and closely resemble so many rough granite columns, sixty feet high, on the top of each is a large tuft of leaves, resembling a huge cabbage.

There are numbers of tamarisk trees, with their thick spreading branches afford- ing a refreshing shade. Under one of these, which as yet shows no sign of decay, Whit- field preached in 1748.

Calabash trees are also te be seen here and there throughout the islands. One under which the poet Mvore loved to sit, when here in 1804, is still renowned as ‘*Tom Moore’s calabash tree.”” The bam- boo, with its heap of thick clustering leaves, from four to seven feet in length, for afew feet above the surface, is to be seen around nearly every residence. There [ze also specimens of the Indian rubber tree, the castor oil tree, the mangrove, and some others.

The domestic anim:ls are the same as in P. E. L, with the exception of sheep— goats and donkeys abound, the latter being used by the colored fclk, in their farming operations, and in drawing their products to market. The cattle, on the whole, are of a very poor quality, no encouragement being given by the Government for the improvement of stock.

The horses are nearly al] imported, and the climate seems to suit them admirably. I have seen horses here breught from P. E. 1. twenty years ago, and in constant service ever since, that appear to have lost none of their strength or vigor. No wild animals were ever found in the Bermudas, and there are no toads or snakes or poisonous reptiles. The wild birds are not numerous. Theold chroniclers state that whenthe islands were first discovered, millions of crows in- habited them; it is said that there are some still, but I have neither seen nor heard them. The black bird abounds, and there are twoothers about the same size, also numerous, one, the ‘‘Cardinal,” of bright red, and a sweet singer, and the other of deep blue color, both very beautiful.

A few years ago, English sparrows were imported to destroy the insects which in- fested the plantations, but it has been found of late that the sparrows, which now fill the land, are about as injurious to the crops as the i insects, and besides they have nearly exterminated all the small birds. These sparrows were the subject of a grave discussion in the Bermuda House of Assembly last session when a motion for their extermination, after having been debated at some length, was, by mutval consent, on account of its magnitude, laid over till next session for further considera- tion.

It may be supposed that the Bermudas, o small, and so far out at sea, are terribly

eee to the fury of the Atlantiv storms, but this is not the case, as they are ubeompletaly encircled by a chain of reefs /which effectually protects them. These ‘veefs, which, on the south and east part, are within a few hundred feet of the shore, ‘on the northern and eastern side, lie off to | thedistance of ten and twelve miles.

| There is only one passage at the north- east throngh which a large ship can enter, and there are also two or three entrances ‘in the same direction by which smaller ivessels can cme, and it is only an ex- perienced pilot who understands all the intricate windings, also the currents and Shoals, that can possibly steer a vessel inte ;port. It may be added that these reefs |form an insuperable barrier against foreign jinvasion, and make the Bermudas about as impregnable as Gibralter.

The reefs on the north and west side of the islands are on the track of vessels be- tween North America and also Europe and the West Indies, and for centuries they have been the dread of mariners. The number of ships wrecked on them, and lives lost, can never be known until the sea gives up her dead.

The danger of shipwreck has, however, been greatly lessened since a lighthouse was built on the west part of the islands. This lighthouse, which I lately had the pleasure of visiting, stands on ‘‘Gibbs’ Hill,” a rocky prominence near the shore, 238 feet in height.

The lighthouse which is made of irom is 138 feet high, and is fastened securely into the top of the rock. A wall of concrete is built up inside of the tower to the height of twenty two feet, and gives great stability to the structure. The top is reached by 181 steps in speral form, and from it ‘‘a bird’s eye view’ of the whole of the islands can be obtained, This view is perhaps the finest that I have ever seen. This light- house was constructed in London at the sole expense of the Imperial Government, and was sent cout in sections and set up under the superintendence of Mr. Grove, C. E., of London. The lighting apparatus is described as a revolving dioptrice lens of the first order with mirrors, with one centre lamp of three concentric wicks and is amoung the largest and most powerful in the world. Ita revolving light was first shown May Ist, 1846, and can be seen at a distance of thirty-three miles. The entire cost was near $30,000. The lighthouse is now the property of the Local Government, to whom it was presented by the Imperial Authorities. There is also a lighthouse on St. David’s Island, at the eastern coast, built in 1879. it exhibits a white fixed light visible at a distance of twenty miles.

The water inside of tle reefs and around all the coast is most remarkable for its clearness, or “lucidity,” as Matthew Arnold would say. Ona bright, calm day you can see the fish and other objects down to the depth of twenty feet; and an expert witha proper glasa can see down to a very much greater depth. The surface water near the shore is never below a temperature of seventy degrees, and bathing is one of the luxuries enjoyed by some of the many strangers who visit Bermuda for the win- ter,—and who have not the fear of the sharks before their eyes.

The waters around the islands teem with fish of various kinds.

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The fishimg industry is entirely in the hands

se colored men, aud I need scarcely add is ushed with undue vigor.

White many of the fish are fairly good, yet the best of them are greatly inferior im quality to those caught in our northern waters. The rock fish is the best that 1 have tasted and resembles halibut.

The flattish is also nice, but the salmon which is nearly white is not worthy of the name.

Among the other varieties are the hogfish, the cowfish with its horns, the amberfish and the angelfish, also the grunter which makes a noise when taken resembling the grunting of a pig. Judging by their names, you will take the above to be ‘queer fish.” I had a sort of grim satisfaction in learning that the shark is used here as an article of food—that the same measure, which it metes out to man, is in return meted out by man to it.

I met a colored fisherm=n one evening ae home from the toils of the deep with

a young shark strung over his shoulders; and finding I was astranger he laid down his load and gave mea long account of the different methods of catching shark, and also a code of rules for the proper cooking of it, which would have beena puzzle to Soyer himself.

Those who hayeeaten shark, affirm that it is delicious; and it must be admitted that the flesh is very white and tender.

I have not, however, tasted it, and think, on the whole, that I would prefer salmon to

shark. W. R. F,

East % arwick, March 8, 1884.

Col. Sir Francis DeWinton, late military secretary of the Governor-General of Canada; has gone to Congo as the represen- tative of the king of the Belgians. He re- places Chinese Gordon at that place. The Canadian reporters wish him—a pleasant journey.

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Horsford’s Acid Phosphate UNEQUALED, Dr. R. M. Alexander, Fannettsburgh, Pa. , says: “I think Borsford’s Acid Phosphate is

not equaled in any other preparation of phos- phorus.”

Ir was rumored at Ottawa, on the 16th inst., that an attempt was to be made to blow up the Parliamentary Buildings. Where the rumor started seems shrouded in the usual mystery, but it seemed to have had the effect of driving the members out of the Commons Chambers, for at half-past eight there was only one member in the Chamber and he was a deaf man, who evidently had not heard the report. The members of the press stood their ground however, It is reported that some of the officials and their wives left the building last evening. A close scrutiny was undoubt- edly kept this evening over the persons entcr- ing the building.

__- Men and women are equally benefited by the use of that creat Brain and nerve rejuven- ator, Mack’s Magnetic Medicine, an advertise- ment of which appears in another column,

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